Tarashankar Bandopadhyaya

Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay (; anglicised spelling of surname: Banerjee), He wrote 65 novels, 53 story-books, 12 plays, 4 essay-books, 4 autobiographies and 2 travel stories. A notable man of wisdom, he was awarded Rabindra Puraskar, Sahitya Akademi award, Jnanpith Award, and Padma Bhushan. No writer, except Rabindranath Tagore, in Bengali literature, won such honours in our days as him.
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